This is an analysis of the poem My Life Is Not An Exercise that begins with:
My life is not an exercise,
Kept to practice and rehearse....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbccc XXaaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 1010101 0011010 111001001 1101001 100111101 101111101 01100111 001010110 010111011101 1110010010101 1110010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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